Some three years ago the Club decided to build a new “N” gauge layout, Rugby Central. This is the smaller of Rugby’s two stations, the one on the old Great Central line. It will be as it was in the early 60’s, shortly before the whole of the line was closed. Photos, plans & maps were gathered together and layout plans drawn. With a little bit of “modellers licence” we will have a scale model of the Station, sidings & immediate area. It is a continuous track and the total board length of 16 feet  will allow us to run full length trains.
 
Boards were constructed and trackwork laid. We “jury rigged” the wiring and the very basic layout was shown at TaDRail 2009.
 
After some delay due to a move to new Club premises we started work again, mainly on the electrics. There will be three controllers – Up Main, Down Main & Goods Yard. These will be interlinked, with all points and signals interlocked. As will be seen from the Photograph of one of the four boards it is a little complicated. (well it is to me)
 
Some of the buildings have been completed and some scenic work started. The rather complex Station building is “in construction”
 
The electrics should be completed fairly soon – then we start all the testing! Once any snags have been dealt with (we have total faith in or electrics team so there shouldn’t be any!!!!) the scenics should move along quite quickly.
 
We will post updates, with photographs on the website from time to time so please keep an eye open for the latest news.

Geoff. Travis

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